-doc/bugs issue/question

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> This is a simple question/issue I've been thinking of:
> 
> Many people submit patches in their PRs; however, many of them are
> not applied because they are submitted for a stable branch and
> many developers simply lack the time to merge it into current.
> 
> Perhaps in our PR/bugs documentation, we could recommend that:
> 
> A patch against the CURRENT or HEAD CVS branch is preffered since
> all new code should be applied and tested first.  After
> appropriate or substational testing has been done, the code will
> be merged/migrated to the STABLE branch.

Good idea.  I'd recommend the "Attaching patches or files" section of the
problem-reports article, where it should slot in quite nicely; but do
spellcheck the above first ;-)

Ceri
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